*NEW* Pictures from the retreat can be found here.

The Biology Department is hosting the first ever retreat for M.S. and Ph.D. Bioinformatics students and Bioinformatics faculty. This retreat would be an opportunity for the M.S. and Ph.D. Bioinformatics students to share their research and experiences, hear lectures from distinguished Bioinformatics faculty and enjoy social events as a community.

This retreat will be scheduled for Saturday, November 13th through Sunday, November 14th at the Collins Lodge and Conference Center in Clarkesville, GA, about one and a half hours north of Atlanta. The retreat would also include a trip to the Tallulah State National Park, located near the conference center, which is home to one of the largest and most spectacular waterfalls in the southeast. Pictures of these locations can be found below.

Schedule

Saturday
9:00-10:00 AM	Breakfast
10:00-10:35 AM	Dr. Mark Borodovsky Bioinformatics and Information Theory
10:35-11:10 AM	Dr. Leonid Bunomovich Models and Exact Solutions Directly from Data: Two Biological Examples
11:10-11:20 AM	Break
11:20-11:55 AM	Dr. Eva Lee TBA
11:55-12:35 PM	Dr. Jung Choi TBA
12:35-1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30-6:35 PM	Tallulah Falls
6:00-7:30 PM	Dinner
7:30-9:00 PM	Poster Session
9:00 PM	Social
Sunday
9:00-10:00 AM	Breakfast
10:00-10:35 AM	Burcu Bakir Functional Classification of GPCR's based on their Predicted Ligand Coupling Specificity
10:35-11:10 AM	Dr. Eberhard Voit Systems Biology
11:10-11:20 AM	Break
11:20-11:55 AM	Dr. Eric Vigoda Markov Chain Models for DNA Sequence Evolution with Context Dependent Mutation Rates
11:55-12:35 PM	Dr. Igor Zhulin Testing the Limits of Computational Genomics..From High Throughput to High Resolution
12:35-1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Return to Atlanta

Directions

Directions to North Georgia Technical College (MapQuest)
Collins Lodge & Conference Center from Atlanta

• Travel I-85 North to 985
• Travel 985 North (turns into Hwy 365N just past Gainesville Exit)
• Travel Hwy 365N approximately 25 miles to "Clarkesville/Mt. Airy" Exit (on right)
• Take Clarkesville/Mt. Airy Exit
• At end of exit ramp, turn left onto Hwy 197N towards Clarkesville
• Travel 4 miles to Clarkesville
• Go through 4-way stop (beside Stoney's Restaurant on left)
• Go through 3 traffic lights ( you'll go past Huddle House, Community Bank & Trust, Rite-Aid, and Clarkesville Square)
• Just past 3rd traffic light - Take deep curve to the right
• Immediately after deep curve, turn left onto Hwy 197N
• Travel 2 miles North on Hwy 197 - North Georgia Technical College is on the right
• Turn right at 3rd entrance to the campus ( look for Collins Lodge & Conference Center sign)
• Make an immediate left turn and go past the Ramsey Hunter Dining Hall
• Collins Lodge is just past the Dining Hall on your right

Pictures

Tallulah Falls (as they look like most of the year, with 10% of real strength)
The North Georgia Technical College